bourke – Real Climate Records

Feb 13

HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS 124 Degrees At White Cliffs SYDNEY. Thursday. 12 Jan 1939. 124 deg F = 45.5 Celsius

HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS (1939, January 12). News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 – 1954), p. 7. Retrieved February 13, 2025, from […]

Jan 25

EXTREME HEAT 25 Jan 1896. Wilcannia made a record with 123 in the shade. = 50.5 Celsius.

EXTREME HEAT. (1896, January 25). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), p. 33. Retrieved January 25, 2025, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139720730?# […]

Jan 24

RECORD HEAT. 24 Jan 1912. Brewarrina to-day reported 118 degrees, this being the highest record for the present summer. 118 deg F = 47.7 Celsius.

RECORD HEAT. (1912, January 24). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 – 1954), p. 8. Retrieved January 24, 2025, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39921546?searchTerm=record%20heat&searchLimits=# RECORD HEAT. […]

Jan 23

HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS 124 Degrees At White Cliffs SYDNEY. Thursday. 12 Jan 1939. 124 deg F = 45.5 Celsius

HEAT CAUSES 14 DEATHS (1939, January 12). News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 – 1954), p. 7. Retrieved January 23, 2025, from […]

Jan 16

Hottest Places in World. 127.5 deg F on January 16, 1889, Cloncurry in Queensland = 53 Celsius.

Hottest Places in World (1953, February 9). The North Western Courier (Narrabri, NSW : 1913 – 1955), p. 2. Retrieved January […]

Jan 10

Heat Waves Fri 9Jan 1903. For about a month the temperature averaged 114 degrees of shade heat, while for six days in succession the glass never showed less than 118 degrees. 118deg.F = 47.7 Degrees Celsius

HEAT WAVES. (1903, January 9). The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 – 1909), p. 6. Retrieved January 10, 2025, from […]

Jan 07

BOURKE’S EXTREME HEAT. SYDNEY, January 7. Bourke reports a thermometer reading of 120. 48.8 Celsuis.

BOURKE’S EXTREME HEAT. (1914, January 10). Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 – 1931), p. 36. Retrieved January 7, 2025, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163119749?searchTerm=extreme%20heat%20in%20sydney# […]

Nov 14

SYDNEY RECORD HEAT. 14 Nov 1936. record high temperatures for November, the heat being accentuated by scorching winds laden with smoke from bushfires. 109 degrees at Bourke, 42.7 Celsius

1936 ‘SYDNEY’, The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), 14 November, p. 8. , viewed 14 Nov 2024, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/141781797?searchTerm=Record%20Heat# FOLLOWING […]

Aug 28

WHOLE NATION SWELTERS. 29 Jan 1932. Heat Waves Stubborn Things No sufferer from recent and present heat conditions need think he has the discomfort entirely to himself, for the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares,told “The Land” on Thursday that the whole of Australia was in the same boat.

WHOLE NATION SWELTERS (1932, January 29). The Land (Sydney, NSW : 1911 – 1954), p. 4. Retrieved August 28, 2024, from […]

Aug 28

HEAT WAVES IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT 29 Jan 1896. The object is to assist such of the residents of Bourke and other districts as do not posses sufficient means to avail themselves of a change of climate in cases where such a change is considered necessary by the medical officer.

HEAT WAVES IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT. (1896, January 29). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), p. 7. Retrieved […]